The Importance of Teaching, published last week, contains detailed plans for improving the calibre of trainee teachers and reforming initial teacher training, but does not address how continuing professional development for teachers or support staff will be organised once the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) becomes an executive agency of the Department for Education (DfE) in 2012.
Malcolm Trobe, policy director at the Association of School and College Leaders, argued that it is "a bit of a hole in the white paper".
"How continuing professional development is going to operate is a bit of a void at the moment, I'm afraid," he said. "We are fully in favour of school-to-school support, but you do need external provision. You can't manage everything within institutions."
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